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Er gehört zur Crème de la Crème des investigativen Journalismus in Amerika - der Bestsellerautor Jon Krakauer schrieb zahlreiche Reportagen und Essays für Magazine wie The New Yorker, Outside oder das Smithsonian. Dieser Band vereint neun dieser packenden Storys und offenbart das breite Spektrum seiner einzigartigen Berichterstattung. Krakauer versetzt uns in atemberaubende und faszinierende Situationen: in eine dramatische Lawinenkatastrophe am Everest, an den Ort eines drohenden Vulkanausbruchs oder in eine Höhle in Mexiko, in der Bedingungen wie auf dem Mars herrschen. Blendend recherchiert und von mitreißender Lebendigkeit zeugt diese Sammlung von Krakauers Liebe zu wilder Natur und seiner unermüdlichen Suche nach der Wahrheit.
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24,00 €

Where Men Win Glory

Broschiertes Buch
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A "gripping book about this extraordinary man who lived passionately and died unnecessarily" (USA Today) in post-9/11 Afghanistan, from the bestselling author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air.
In 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of American patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend was born. But the real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerably more complicated than the public knew.
Sent first to Iraq a war he would openly declare was illegal as hell and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers. Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman s own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman s family and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush used Tillman s name to promote his administration s foreign policy. Long after Tillman s nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had probably been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible.
Drawing on Tillman s journals and letters and countless interviews with those who knew him and extensive research in Afghanistan, Jon Krakauer chronicles Tillman s riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer s storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war.
This edition has been updated to reflect new developments and includes new material obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
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17,99 €

Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer, geboren 1954, arbeitet als Wissenschaftsjournalist fur amerikanische Zeitschriften. Er wurde er durch den Millionenbestseller "In eisige Hohen", in dem er den Uberlebenskampf der Bergsteiger am Mount Everest schildert, weltberuhmt. Fur seine Reportagen wurde er mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Auf deutsch erschienen von ihm au?erdem: "Auf den Gipfeln der Welt", "Mord im Auftrag Gottes", "In die Wildnis" (von Sean Penn verfilmt). In seinem neusten Buch, "Auf den Feldern der Ehre", schildert er die Tragodie des beruhmtesten Freiwilligen der US-Armee. Jon Krakauer lebt mit seiner Frau in Bolder, Colorado.